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LA SALLE EXTEXSIOX UNIVERSITY 
OFFICERS OF ADMINISTRATION 

Director of Instruction Dept William A. Colledge 

Chairman Board of Administration. .Edward W. deBower 

Treasurer Jesse G. Chaplixe 

Secretary James Proyax 

Chief of Consulting* Staff "William M. Haxdy 

Author "Course in Literature ". . Wm. Cleaver Wilkixsox 



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Professor William A. Colledge, D.D., F.B.G.S. 



Roger A. Pryor, LL.D., Ex-Justice Supreme Court, X. Y. 
John Temple Graves, Editor-in-Chief, X. Y. American. 
Win. Cleaver Wilkinson, A.M., D.D., LL.D. 
Garrett Putnam Serviss, B.S., Ed. Writer. X. Y. Sun. 
Walter D. Moody, Gen. Mgr. Chicago Ass'n of Commerce. 
Wm. M. Handy, Formerly Editor Chicago Sunday Tribune. 
C. W. Kniseley, C.P.A.. Pres. Audit Company Illinois. 
Charles H. Harvey, Editor St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 
Herbert Kaufman, Journalist, Advertising Expert. 
Wm. M. Dawson, Ex-Governor West Virgina. 
W. E. Ernst, Publisher ''The World Today." 
E. S. Ketchum, A.B., Pd.M., Dir. Shippers Freight Service. 
Jos. E. Bangs, Former Asst. State Supt. Pub. Inst., HI. 
James Provan, M.A., D.D., Author of Studies in Eng. Lit, 
Arthur L. Eice, Managing Editor Practical Engineer. 
John Bascom, D.D., LL.D., Formerlv Pres. Cniv. of Wis. 



LA SALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY 
Department of Literature 

FOEEWOED 

BY 

William Cleaver Wilkinson, A.M., D.D., LL.D., 

Professor of Poetry and Criticism in the University of Chi- 
cago, Author of "The Epic of Saul," "The Epic 
of Paul," "The Epic of Moses," etc. 

It is a happy omen that the La Salle Extension Uni- 
versity has decided to place its powerful organization and 
its well-earned prestige at the service of the cause of litera- 
ture and of popular literary culture. The time current is 
peculiarly the day of science, and literature has suffered 
comparative neglect; but here is an encouraging sign that 
literature is coming into possession of its own again. No 
wise lover of literature will permit himself to wish that 
science should he honored less, but every wise lover of sci- 
ence even might well wish that literature should be honored 
more. The present initiative of the La Salle Extension 
University may be expected to contribute materially to this 
much-to-be-desired result. 

For my own part, I can sincerely testify that it has given 
me a most unexpected vivid pleasure to have "Wilkinson's 
Foreign Classics in English" selected to constitute a kind 
of foundation for the projected "Extension University" 
curriculum of studies having for their object the promo- 
tion of genuine literary culture among the people of this 
country. In the writer's opinion, no better start is possi- 
ble on the path to attainment of true culture than intelli- 
gent attention to the classics of antiquity, followed by simi- 
lar attention to classics in modern languages which every- 
where betray the formative influence of ancient standards 
and models. 

What the La Salle Extension University has chosen 
for beginning a course of study promotive of intellectual 
culture will be found to secure, for the student desiring 
such culture and not content with mere information, a com- 
bination of several distinct important advantages. 

In the first place, not to confuse and discourage the stu- 
dent by offering him pages bristling with unfamiliar proper 
names not necessary and not profitable for him to know, 



LA SALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY 

Department of Literature 

FOREWORD (Continued) 

there was made, out of the whole number of candidates pre- 
senting themselves for inclusion, a very careful selection 
of the authors, not too many, deemed most worthy to be 
represented. 

Iu the second place, still with the same object in view, 
from the various works of the authors selected, those works 
were thoughtfully fixed upon which seemed at once the 
most truly characteristic of their individual genius, and the 
most likely to interest and profit the student. 

Then a third task of selection was undertaken, in detach- 
ing from those works such extracts, not too long, as best 
admitted of being made a separate subject of study. 

After this, an effort followed, to give these extracts a 
setting of comment, sometimes biographical, sometimes his- 
torical, sometimes otherwise explanatory, that should, so to 
speak, connect them back again vitally with the text from 
which they were sundered, and make them as thoroughly 
intelligible to the student as they would be if the full text 
itself were before him. 

Again, the current conventional estimates of the authors 
treated and of their works are clearly stated, while also 
there are in many cases supplied original independent criti- 
cisms, not always concurring, by the present author or com- 
piler himself. 

The student is thus incited and enabled to exercise his 
own individual judgment as to the justness of the sentences 
pronounced by his author upon the works passed under 
review. Doing this produces ability to do it, and ability to 
do it is of the very essence of culture. 




LA SALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY 

Department of Literature 

The University of Wisconsin lias this to say of extension 
teaching : 

"The possibility of teaching by correspondence has al- 
ready been demonstrated by practical experiment. While 
such instruction lacks some of the advantages which resi- 
dent study gives, it has compensating advantages of its 
own. In correspondence instruction, the teaching is per- 
sonal and individual. Every student studies and recites 
the whole lesson, comes in contact with the teacher as an 
individual, not as a member of a large class. It can be 
done at home and thereby brings into the home a new in- 
fluence and charm. Correspondence work, moreover, 
throws a man upon his own resources and makes him self- 
reliant and self-determining." 

President Pritchett, formerly of the Massachusetts Insti- 
tute of Technology, said: 

"The growth of such schools, whose students are 
drawn wholly from those who are denied a college train- 
ing, is the most striking evidence which can be presented 
not only of the need which such men feel for additional 
training, but of their determination to obtain it. 

"In Massachusetts alone, more men and women are 
seeking training in correspondence schools than in all 
other technical schools — public and private combined." 
Charles W. Eliot, formerly President Harvard, said: 

' ' The great problem of America in the immediate future 
is that of adult education." 

"The work done by correspondence is even better than 
that done in the classroom. The correspondence student 
does twenty times as much reciting as he would in a class 
where there were twenty people, and the results stay with 
him." — The late Dr. Wm. R. Harper, President of the Uni- 
versity of Chicago. 

Hundreds of equally strong endorsements regarding 
the value of extension work from equally prominent 
sources could be mentioned. 



LA SALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY 
Department of Literature 

EXTRACT, PREFACE OF TEXT 

BY 

W. C. Wilkinson, A.M., D.D., LL.D., 

Professor of Poetry and Criticism, 
University of Chicago. 

"This is not a school-book — thongh, on 
the other hand, it is designed to be a 
book that any school-boy or school-girl 
would like to read, and would read 
with profit." 

"It is not a book to be studied and 
labored over — though, again, on the 
other hand, it is designed to be such 
that some study and labor spent on it 
would prove to have been pains not 
ill bestowed." 

•'It is not prepared for any particular 
class of persons exclusively, but for 

all classes of persons alike." 

"It conveys information, but it is in- 
formation that every intelligent reader 
will be glad to acquire." 

"What is undertaken in this Course is 
dictated and prescribed by the well- 
established customs of our American 
institutions of classical education." 



LA SALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY 

Department of Literature 

General Statement : An earnest effort has been made 
to provide a complete and thoroughly practical course in 
ancient and modern literature, and to supply a series of 
studies that would lead the student by easy stages through 
the most interesting and instructive fields of literature. 

A familiarity with the great literary masterpieces 
paves the way for all that is highest and best in life, dis- 
ciplining the mind, extending the mental vision, increas- 
ing the vocabulary and adding a certain elegance to the 
student's diction. 

In every community there are persons who stand out 
among their associates. When they read a book, hear a 
lecture, witness a play, or see a painting, they appreciate 
the privilege of such pleasures more than any mere observ- 
ance of the same. The secret of this superiority consists 
in realizing the strength and beauty of literature. 

We quote the following: "I wish it were possible to 
show those who long to get on in the world, but feel that 
they are crippled by the lack of an education, how easy it 
is to get at home a good substitute for a regular course at 
school, or even at college." 

"If we could only realize that a college course is simply 
made of single hours of study and reading, it would not 
seem so formidable. Every hour of highly concentrated 
study at home may be made just as valuable as the same 
hours so spent at college. Very few graduates have gone 
out into the world as well equipped mentally as some of 
our most eminent American statesmen who never saw the 
inside of a college, but who took good advantage of every 
opportunity for self-improvement." 

The great university of life is the college founded in 
the home. 



LA SALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY 

Department of Literature 

The object of this Course is to conduct readers through 
substantially the same course of reading in the different 
literatures as is accomplished by students who are grad- 
uated from our American colleges. 

It will be found that the present series of text books 
goes farther in the case of each literature than the average 
college graduate will have gone in the prescribed course 
of his study of the several languages. 

The four languages represented are : 

Greek 
Latin 
French 
German 

There is no undertaking to make readers conversant 
with these languages; the undertaking is to make them con- 
versant with the literatures written in these languages. 

The text used in this Course is prepared by Prof. "Will- 
iam Cleaver Wilkinson, A.M., D.D., LL.D., formerly Profes- 
sor of Modem Languages, L'niversity of Rochester, and 
now Professor of Poetry and Criticism, L'niversity of Chi- 
cago. 

Prof. Wilkinson's '^Foreign Classics in English" has 
received endorsement of many learned and critical author- 
ities, including: 

The heads of the Department of Greek in the Univer- 
sities of: 

Chicago 

Columbia 

Harvard 

Yale 

Michigan 

Rochester 

and other L T niversities and Colleges.. 



LA SALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY 
Department of Literature 

The heads of the Department in Latin in the Univer- 
sities of: 

Chicago 
Michigan 
Wisconsin 
Rochester, 
etc. 
The Presidents of: 

Northwestern University 
Dartmouth College 
Newton Theological Institution 
Yale University 
University of Michigan 
Brown University 
Vassar College, 
etc. 

Leading Periodicals, including: 

"The Nation" 
"The Independent" 
"The Outlook" 
"The Westminster Review" 
"The Atlantic Monthly" 
"The Methodist Quarterly Review," 
etc. 

And, also, many eminent literary men, such as : 

Edmund Clarence Stedman 

Thomas Wentworth Higginson 

Edward Everett Hale 

Moses Coit Tyler 

Edward Eggleston 

George P. Fisher 

Lyman Abbott, and others. 

Whoever is preparing for college ; whoever is already a 
student in college; whoever has left a college course unfin- 
ished ; whoever has accomplished a college course ; whoever 
has been prevented from taking a college course, will se- 
cure in this Course a clear understanding and a satisfying 
knowledge of the world's best classical literature. 



LA SALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY 

Department of Literature 

GEEEK CLASSICS IN ENGLISH. 

The literature of Greece is remarkable equally for its 
matter and for its form. 

The Greek mind was curious, bold, enterprising, saga- 
cious, acute, subtle. If it loved light too well to be dis- 
tinctively deep, yet it loved light so well as almost always, 
at least, to be clear. It was extremely hospitable and 
penetrable to ideas. It was agile, graceful, gay — open to 
sensuous impression, passionately fond of beauty, as it 
was gifted with a sense divine of measure, proportion, and 
harmony. It was instinctively enamored of the perfect in 
whatever it attempted, and it was capable of great 
patience. It was exquisite in taste and judgment, while, by 
necessary complement and contrast, it was electrically 
alive to everything grotesque or ridiculous. 

These qualities of the Greek mind impressed them- 
selves, as the seal impresses itself upon the wax, upon 
Greek literature. 

There never has been, anywhere else in the world, so 
much writing approaching so nearly to ideal perfection in 
form as among the Greeks. 

For the purpose of study in style there is nothing else 
equal to Greek literature. 

Quoting from Prof. Wilkinson: "Our plan is to give 
our readers a knowledge of Greek authors, representing 
four different departments of Greek literature." 

The list of subjects treated includes: 

Herodotus Sappho 

Thucydidea Simonides 

Plato Theocritus 

JEschylus Bion 

Sophocles Moschus 

Euripides Demosthenes 

Aristophanes JEsehines, etc. 
Findar 



LA SALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY 
Department of Literature 

LATIN CLASSICS IN ENGLISH 

Regarding this section of the work Prof. Wilkinson 
"says : ' ' The student may confidently feel that what he finds 
here deals with matter that will interest many generations 
to come, as it has already interested many generations 
past. The human mind will have to be constituted other- 
wise than as it is, before it ceases to be concerned with its 
own former history. And that history is inextricably in- 
tertwined with the language in which the great perished 
nation of mankind did its thinking, its speaking and its 
writing. ' ' 

"It would be impossible to exaggerate the supreme 
dominion exercised by the national purpose to conquer, 
over Roman character and life. This purpose was a fire 
that burned up in the soul of Rome everything that tended 
to hinder it, everything that did not tend to help it. Truth, 
honor, justice, pity, love — every sentiment that had in it a 
trace of unselfishness was withered, was shriveled, was 
turned to ashes, licked by that £erce ? fiery flickering 
tongue. 

"The Romans had the will. It was of no use to defeat 
them in battle. Defeat only made them more resolute than 
before. They never made peace but as conquerors. On 
occasion of disaster to their arms, they rose in spirit with 
the decline of their fortune, and demanded more, rather 
than less, as a condition of peace. There was but one 
effectual way to subdue such a people, and that way was to 
annihilate them. The nation to annihilate the Romans did 
not appear. Be patient; they will at last, with long sui- 
cide, annihilate themselves." 
The list of subjects treated includes : 



Livy 






The Literature of Rome 


Tacitus 






Quintilian 


Plautus 






Ovid 


Terence 






Sallust 


Horace 






Virgil 


Caesar 






Juvenal 


The Latin Reader 




Cicero 


Cicero's < 


Orations 




Pliny, 


The City 


and the 


People 


Etc. 



LA SALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY 
Department of Literature 

FRENCH CLASSICS IN ENGLISH 

The author says: "The aim has here been to furnish 
the student the means of acquiring a knowledge — trust- 
worthy and effective, of the great literature which has 
been written in French. This object has been sought, not 
through narrative and description, making books and 
authors the subject, but through the literature itself, illum- 
inated by the necessary explanation and criticism." 

Again: "Of French literature, taken as a whole, it 
may boldly be said that it is not the wisest, not the weight- 
iest, not certainly the purest and loftiest, but by odds the 
most brilliant and the most interesting literature in the 
world. French literature is a living body from which no 
important members have ever yet been rent by the rav- 
ages of time." 

"In eloquence, in philosophy, even in theology; in his- 
tory, in fiction, in criticism, the French language is hardly 
second in wealth of letters to any other language what- 
ever, either ancient or modern." 

"What constitutes the charm — partly a perilous charm 
— of French literature, is, before all else, its incomparable 
clearness, its precision, its neatness, its point. Added to 
this, its lightness of touch, its sureness of aim, its vivacity, 
sparkle, life — in one word, its style." 
The List or Subjects Teeated Includes: 
Froissart Saurin 

Eabelais Fenelon 

Montaigne Le Sage 

LaRoehefoucauld Lamartine 

LaBruyere Balzac 

Vauvenargues Joubert 

LaFontaine Montesquieu 

Moliere Tocqueville 

Pascal Voltaire 

Beranger Bousseau 

Sainte-Beuve St. Pierre 

Musset Diderot 

Mme. de Sevigne D'Alembert 

Corneille Mme. de Stael 

Bacine Chateaubriand 

Bossuet Victor Hugo 

Bourdaloue George Sand 

Massillon Amiel, etc. 



LA SALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY 
Department of Literature 

GERMAN CLASSICS IN ENGLISH 

Dr. Wilkinson says: "This text has an object similar 
to that of each text preceding in the series to which it 
belongs. 

"It aims to enable readers knowing English, but not 
German, to acquire, through the medium of the former 
language, a satisfactory acquaintance with the chief class- 
ics of German literature. 

"The method proposed of accomplishing this is — hav- 
ing first made a summary sketch and characterization of 
German literature as a whole, — to present these through 
translation, in specimens from those generally acknowl- 
edged the best — whether prose or verse — accompanied 
with such comment, biographical, explanatory, critical, as 
may be judged desirable in order to secure the fairest and 
fullest final impression on the reader's mind, primarily 
of the true characteristic individual quality of each author 
treated, and, secondarily, of each author's historic rela- 
tion and influence. 

1 ' Taking translated German text, select and representa- 
tive, for the basis, the backbone of the book, we have 
sought so to edit the text as to invest it with flesh, — its own 
flesh; to inspire it with breath, — its own breath; to give it 
a heart, — its own heart ; in short, to make it live, and with 
its own life. 

The List of Subjects Treated Includes : 

Luther R iickert 

Hans Sachs Tieck 

Gerhardt Novalis 

Klopstock The Schlegels 

Gellert The Grimms 

Lessing Hoffmann 

Korner Chamisso 

Wieland Fouque 

Brun Uhland 

Herder Goethe 

Richter Schiller 

Burger Heine 



LA SALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY 
Department of Literature 



Illustrative Topical Outline 

The analytical outlines on the following 
pages give an idea of the workmanlike 
manner in which the authors and their 
writings are treated. This full, inter- 
pretative presentation of the great mas- 
terpieces is characteristic of both text 
and lectures. 



LA SALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY 
Department of Literature 

Thou art adjudged to guard this joyless rock 
Erect, unslumbering, bending not the knee, 

And many a cry and unavailing moan 
To utter on the air. For Zeus is stern, 

And new made Kings are cruel. 

— Aeschylus : ' ' Prometheus. ' ' 

AESCHYLUS, 

The Creator of Greek Tragedy. 

I. Aristotle 's Definition of Tragedy. 

II. Shakespearean and Greek Tragedy Compared. 

(a) Modern tragedy presents real life ideal- 

ized. 

(b) Ancient tragedy presented our ideal life 

realized. 

III. Rise of Greek Tragedy. 

(a) Its purpose. 

(b) The theater. Actors. Acting. 

IV. Aeschylus. 

(a) Youth, experience as a soldier, creator 
of tragedy, subject matter of plays, 
characteristics of his genius. 

V. Prometheus. 

(a) Plot. 

(b) Characterization. 

(c) Style. 

(d) Mrs. Browning's translation. 

(e) Interpretative study of Prometheus. 

(f) Critical estimate. 



LA SALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY 
Department of Literature 

VIRGIL, 

"The Best-Read Poet of All Time." 

I. Virgil. • 

(a) His life. 

(b) His character. 

(c) His genius. 

II. Virgil's Poems. 

(a) Pastoral. 

(b) Epic. 

III. The Relation Between Virgil and Dante. 

(a) As a guide. 

(b) As a master. 

IV. The Ten Eclogues of Virgil, Now Extant. 

(a) The length. 

(b) The metre. 

(c) The idea. 

V. The Famous Parallel of Virgil's "Pollio" by 

Pope, Including the Fourth Pastoral, Which 
Has for Ostensible Subject, Birth of the 
Marvelous Boy, Singularly Coincident with 
Prophecies of Holy Writ, and Variously Sup- 
posed to be: 

(a) The son of Anthony. 

(b) The son of Pollio. 

(c) The son of Augustus. 
VT. The Georgics. 

(a) Derivation. 

(b) Object. 

(c) Episode. 

VTI. The Aeneid — "Most Famous of Poems." 

(a) 1. The standard. 

2. The purpose. 

3. The effect. 
Translations by 

(b) 1. Connington. 

2. Dryden. 

3. Morris. 

(c) Contrast between 

1. Iliad of Homer. 

2. Aeneid of Virgil. 

VIII. Summary of the Action of the Aeneid. 



LA SALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY 
Department of Literature 

/'Life is a floiver of which Love is the honey." 

— Victor Hugo. 

VICTOR HUGO 

I. The French Romanticists of 1830. 

(1) Classicism Law. 

(2) Romanticism Life. 

II. Victor Hugo. 

Precocity. Interest in public affairs. 
"History of a Crime." Personality. 
A fighting romanticist. 

III. Interpretative Studies. 

(1) Novels. 

Les Miserables. 

(a) Tragic situations. 

(b) Strength of characterization. 

(c) Prose style. 

(d) Philosophy. 

(e) Teachings by love and example. 

(2) Dramas. 

(a) Cromwell, Hernani. 

(b) Critical estimates. 

(3) Poetry. 

(a) The Grave and the Rose. 

(b) Critical estimate. 

IV. Influence of Hugo's Writings upon French Men 

of Letters. 

V. Influence of Hugo's Writings upon the Present 

Day Character and Lives of Men. 

VI. Hugo's Love of and Belief in Mankind. 



LA SALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY 
Department of Literature 

Joy is the mainspring in the whole 
Of endless Nature's calm rotation. 

Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll 
In the great time-piece of Creation. 

— Schiller : Hymn to Joy. 

SCHILLER, 

The Favorite Poet or Germany. 

I. JoHANN CHRISTOPH FrEDRICH VON SCHILLER. 

Education, Friendships, Character. Methods of 
"Work. 

II. Interpretative Studies. 

(1) Dramas. 

(a) The Eobbers. Its effect upon German 

conservatism. 

(b) Wallenstein a trilogy, plot, characteriza- 

tion, style. 

(c) Critical estimate. 

(2) Poetry. 

(a) The Divisions of the Earth, Hope, Song 

of the Bell. 

(b) Diver, Knight Tobbenburg. 

(c) Critical estimate. 

IIL Influence of Schiller's Writings upon German 
Literature. 



LA SALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY 
Department of Literature 

A FEW ILLUSTRATIVE PASSAGES FROM 
Les Miserables 

"The Bible of the World, the Gospel of the People," 
representing Hugo's prose at its very best, alike in style, 
in thought and in spirit. 

"Waterloo is the strangest encounter in history. Na- 
poleon and Wellington. They are not enemies; they are 
opposites. Never did God, who is fond of antitheses, make 
a more striking contrast, a more extraordinary compari- 
son. 

On one side, precision, foresight, geometry, prudence, 
an assured retreat, reserves spared, with an obstinate 
coolness, an impertrubable method, strategy, which takes 
advantage of the ground, tactics, which preserve the equi- 
librium of batallions, carnage, executed according to rule, 
war regulated, watch in hand, nothing voluntarily left to 
chance, the ancient classic courage, absolute regularity. 

On the other, intuition, divination, military oddity, 
superhuman instinct, a naming glance, an indescribable 
something which gazes like an eagle, and which strikes like 
the lightning, a prodigious art in disdainful impetuosity, 
all the mysteries of a profound soul, association with 
destiny; the stream, the plain, the forest, the hill, sum- 
moned, and in a manner, forced to obey, the despot going 
even so far as to tyrannize over the field of battle; faith 
in a star mingled with strategic science, elevating but per- 
turbing it. 

Wellington was the Bareme of war; Napoleon was its 
Michael Angelo. On this occasion genius was vanquished 
by calculation. On both sides some one was awaited. It 
was the exact calculator who succeeded." 



LA SALLE EXTEXSIOX UNIVERSITY. 
Department of Literature 

"True or false, that which is said of men often occu- 
pies as important a place in their lives, and above all in 
their destinies, as that which they do." 

•• TTas he. in the midst of these distractions, these af- 
fections which absorbed his life, suddenly smitten with 
one of those mysterious and terrible blows which some- 
times overwhelm, by striking to his heart, a man whom 
public catastrophes would not shake, by striking at his 
existence and his fortune?'" 

"You are looking at a good man. and I at a great man. 
Each of us can profit by it." 

"Han has upon him his flesh, which is at once his bur- 
den and his temptation. He drags it with him and yields 
to it. He must watch it. check it. repress it. and obey it 
only at the last extremity. There may be some fault even 
in this obedience; but the fault thus committed is venial; 
it is a fall, but a fall on the knees which may terminate in 
prayer. ' ' 

"Since the most sublime things are often those which 
are the last understood, there were people in the town who 
said, when commenting on this conduct of the Bishop. 'It 
is affectation.' " 

"He sought to counsel and calm the despairing man, 
by pointing out to him the resigned man. and to trans- 
form the grief which gazes upon a grave by showing him 
the grief which fixes its gaze upon a star." 



LA SALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY. 

Department of Literature 

"They pointed out his house to any one who was in 
need of anything." 

"Do not inquire the name of him who asks a shelter 
of you. The very man who is embarrassed by his name is 
the one who needs shelter." 

"This door does not demand of him who enters 
whether he has a name, but whether he has a grief. You 
suffer, you are hungry and thirsty; you are welcome." 

"The great dangers lie within ourselves. What mat- 
ters it what threatens our head or our purse? Let us 
think only of that which threatens our soul." 

"I will weep with you over the children of kings, pro- 
vided that you will weep with me over the children of the 
people. ' ' 

"Abuses existed, I combated them; tyrannies existed, I 
destroyed them; rights and principles existed, I pro- 
claimed and confessed them." 

"Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous 
thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men." 

"What more was needed by this old man, who divided 
the leisure of his life, where there was so little leisure, 
between gardening in the daytime and contemplation at 
night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with the heavens 
for a ceiling, sufficient to enable him to adore God in his 
most divine works, in turn? Does not this comprehend 
all, in fact, and what is there left to desire beyond it? 
A little garden in which to walk, and immensity in which 
to dream. At one's feet that which can be cultivated and 
plucked ; over head that which one can study and meditate 
upon; some flowers on earth, and all the stars in the 
sky." 



LA SALLE EXTEXSIOX UNIVERSITY 

Department of Literature 

"His youth, which was packing up for departure long 
before its time, beat a retreat in good order, bursting with 
laughter, and no one saw anything but fire." 

"The arms of mothers are made of tenderness; in them 
children sleep profoundly." 

"The most ferocious creatures are disarmed by 
caresses bestowed on their young" 

"The goodness of the mother is written in the gayety 
of the child." 

"There exist crab-like souls which are continually re- 
treating towards the darkness, retrograding in life rather 
than advancing, employing experience to augment their 
deformity, growing incessantly worse, and becoming more 
and more impregnated with an ever-augmenting black- 
ness." 

"Certain natures cannot love on the one hand with- 
out hating on the other." 

"Injustice had made her peevish, and misery had made 
her ugly." 

"To be blind and to be loved, is, in fact, one of the 
most strangely exquisite forms of happiness upon this 
earth, where nothing is complete." 

"To be served in distress is to be caressed." 

"The sacred law of Jesus Christ governs our civiliza- 
tion, but it does not, as yet, permeate it; it is said that 
slavery has disappeared from civilization. This is a mis- 
take. It still exists; but it weighs only upon the woman, 
and it is called prostitution." 



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"That he carried prayer to the pitch of a superhuman 
aspiration is probable ; but one can no more pray too much 
than one can love too much." 

"There are men who toil at extracting gold; he toiled 
at the extraction of pity. Universal misery was his mine. 
The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse 
for unfailing kindness. Love each other; he declared this 
to be complete, desired nothing further, and that was the 
whole of his doctrine." 

' ' The cities make ferocious men because they make cor- 
rupt men. The mountain, the sea, the forest, make sav- 
age men; they develop the fierce side, but often without 
destroying the humane side." 

"Jean Valjean had entered the galleys sobbing and 
shuddering; he emerged impassive. He had entered in de- 
spair; he emerged gloomy." 

"From year to year this soul had dried away slowly, 
but with fatal sureness. When the heart is dry, the eye 
is dry." 

"Is there not in every human soul, was there not in 
the soul of Jean Valjean in particular, a first spark, a 
divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal in 
the other, which good can develop, fan, ignite, and make 
to glow with splendor, and which evil can never wholly 
extinguish ?" 

"Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to 
evil, but to good. It is your soul that I buy from you; I 
withdraw it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdi- 
tion, and I give it to God." 

"Still retaining on their faces something of serenity of 
toil, and in their soul that flower of honesty which sur- 
vives the first fall in woman. ' ' 



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STTMMABY OF COUBSE 

The Extension Cottese en Liteeatuee covers a period of 
one year and embraces : 

1. Certificate of Mateicelatiox entitling the holder to 

the Course of Instruction in Literature and the 
privilege of Correspondence and Consultation on 
any point or question pertaining to the study. 

2. The Text: Foreign Classics in English, six sections, 

three-fourths Morocco, prepared by "William. Cleaver 
"Wilkinson, A.M., D.D., LL.D., Professor of Poetry 
and Criticism, University of Chicago. The text con- 
tains discussions of the classics and examples of 
literary interpretation, illustrating the rules and 
principles of practical criticism as outlined in the 
Course. 

3. The Lectttees: A series of twelve lectures by au- 

thors and teachers eminent in the field of letters, 
each lecture, being complete in itself, presents 
distinct phases of prose, poetry and criticism. 

4. Qeestioxatee : A series of analytical and illustrative 

questions based on the lectures and text, emphasiz- 
ing the instruction features. This method enables 
one to acquire a knowledge of literature without the 
intensive study common to such work. 

5. Examixatioxs : Papers carefully corrected, criticized, 

graded and returned. 

6. Credits: Allowed for proficiency attained in the 

monthly examination. A minimum of 75 per cent, 
required in the examinations for award of diploma. 

7. Diplomas: Issued upon satisfactory completion of 

the twelve months' study, certifying that the holder 
has attained proficiency in the work of the course. 

8. Discoexts: On all new standard books and publica- 

tions (except newspapers or magazines). A saving 
of 15 per cent, to 50 per cent, on book purchases to 
members desiring to avail themselves of the whole- 
sale purchasing privilege of the LaSalle Extension 
University. 



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LECTURE COURSE 

The series of written lectures of the course will be of 
intense interest to the student. They deal with certain 
phases of literary criticism that are certain to arouse in- 
terest and stimulate further study. The following list will 
indicate the scope of this field as covered by the Course : 

The Practical Uses of Literature. 
The Art of Robert Browning. 
Beginnings of the Modern Drama. 
The Technique of the Short Story. 
The Dramatic Art of Suderman. 
The French Canadian in Literature. 
Maeterlinck, Poet, Dramatist and 

Mystic. 
Dramatic Criticism and the Modern 

Stage. 
The Theater of the Greeks. 
Elements of Literary Criticism. 
Comidie Humaine of Balzac. 
Present Day Fiction. 



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QUESTIONAIRE. 

The questions relating to this Course in 
Literature will be found in a separate 
booklet. They are based upon the con- 
tents of the text and the Special Lec- 
tures. 

The purpose of these questions is, first, 
to develop a technical knowledge of lit- 
erature; second, to direct the thought 
along lines of art, philosophy, litera- 
ture, civics, and the science of self-cul- 
ture. 

A Few Sample Questions Follow: 



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"What special features are worthy of note about the 
geography of Greece? Text Book I, p. 8 

Name the three most famous peoples of the world. 

Text Book I, p. 9 

Explain briefly why literature is the most enduring of all 
products of human genius. Text Book I, p. 16 

Explain the lesson taught in Aesop's fable of "The Kid 
and the Wolf." Text Book 1, p. 40 

In the realm of poetry, which poem is generally consid- 
ered the world's masterpiece? Give reasons for this. 

Text Book I, p. 124 

Contrast the character and mental attitude of Bryant, one 
of the translators of the Iliad, with that of Homer, the 
author of the Iliad. Text Book I, p. 139 

What is considered to be the greatest achievement of Aris- 
totle? Text Book I, p. 260 

In what lies the charm of the historical writing of Herod, 
otus? Text Book II, p. 17-18 

W T hat is considered the greatest production of Plato? 

Text Book II, p. 85 

What must we do to prepare the mind to gain a true esti- 
mate of Greek tragedy? Text Book II, p. 130 

Explain the chief feature of the comedy of Aristophanes. 

Text Book II, p. 217 

Through what channel did the philosophy of Aristotle fincl 
its way into Christian theology? Text Book I, p. 2515 



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The writing of what two authors marks the beginning and 
the end of classic Eoman literature? 

Text Book III, p. 41 

Give briefly from book fonr of Caesar's Commentaries, an 
account of his invasion into Britain. 

Text Book III. p. 144-146 

What do you consider suggested Virgil to Dante as the 
guide in his imaginative experiences in hell and purg- 
atorv? 

Text Book HI, p. 208-209. 

(a) Contrast the literary qualities which distinguish the 
writings of Livy and 

(b) the writings of Tacitus. Text Book IV. p. 63 



Tell the story of LaFontaine's fable of "The Animals 
sick of the Plague." Text Book VI, p. 73 

(a) Who is considered the greatest writer of comedy in 
the world? 

(b) G-ive the plot of one of his plavs. 

Text Book VI, p. 75-78 

What is the subject of Voltaire's "Candide?" 

Text Book VI, p. 203 

What circumstances connected with the publishing of "Les 
Miserables" made the book unique in the historv of 
literature? Text Book VI, p. 278 

What is meant bv the reference to "Les Miserables" as 
"The Bible of the World, the Gospel of the People?" 

What similarity do we find in the literarv art of Balzac 
and Dickens? Text Book VI, p. 295 



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What particular quality of literary power made Lessing 
a living force in German literature? 

Text Book V, p. 56 

For the writings of what German author was a special 
lexicon published to explain the meaning of the strange 
words he employed? Text Book V, p. 123 

What is meant by the statement that "the key to Goethe's 
literary product is Goethe himself?" 

Text Book V, p. 163 

Upon what personal experience is Goethe's "The Sorrows 
of Young Werther" based? Text Book V, p. 173 

Upon what legend is Goethe's Faust founded? 

Text Book V, p. 206 

What age was Schiller when his drama, "The Robber,'! 
was published? Text Book V, p. 222 

Compare Marlowe's Faustus and Goethe's Faust and 
bring out the different handling of the legend. 

Text Book V, p. 206-207 

Tell briefly the story of Wieland's "Oberon." 

Text Book V, p. 87 

In what manner was the personality of Richter shown in 
his correspondence? Text Book V, p. 136-7 

Explain what is meant by the term Romancers and Ro- 
manticists in German Literature. 

Text Book V, p. 285-6 

(a) Give the name of Heine's prose masterpiece. 

(b) Describe briefly his work. 

Text Book V, p. 303-4 



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EXPRESSIONS, VALUE OF TEXT 

The most conclusive test of the intrinsic 
value of any proposition, whether liter- 
ary, scientific or economic, is the guide 
afforded by those who are in a position 
to express an unbiased, disinterested and 
authoritative opinion. 

Please note the opinions that follow and 
the sources from which they emanate. 
No evidence could be more conclusive or 
more reliable. 



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Samuel H. Greene, D. D., LL. D., President of Colum- 
bian University, Washington, D. C. : " Professor Wilkinson 
has laid the world of scholarship under obligation to him by 
this admirable contribution to its literature." 

Richard Parsons, A. M., D. D., Professor of Greek, Ohio 
Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio: "The work on 
'Wilkinson's Foreign Classics in English' is finely done. 
From the careful perusal of such works even the translation 
is spirited, the sketches good, and the general perspective 
excellent. ' ' 

Edmund Clarence Stedman, LL. D., New York: "The 
presentation of Plato, Aristophanes and Demosthenes 
struck me as being peculiarly apt and instinctive." 

Prof. James R. Boise, formerly Professor of Greek in 
the University of Michigan : ' ' This idea of the work is orig- 
inal. The work must prove in more ways than I can enu- 
merate, of great value to the student." 

Alvah Hovey, D. D., LL. D., late President of Newton 
Theological Institution: "I do not often read a volume 
through from beginning to end without omitting a chapter, 
paragraph, or sentence. But I have read in this way the 
Preparatory Greek Course simply because it is so instruct- 
ive and captivating that I could not persuade myself to pass 
over any word of it unread." 

Charles K. Adams, LL. D., President of University of 
Wisconsin: "The work is remarkably well adapted to 
tempt the reader to a further acquaintance with Greek liter- 
ature and life." 

Prof. A. C. Kendrick, D. D., formerly Professor of 
Greek, University of Rochester: "Its execution is very 
felicitous ; it is marked by the taste and scholarship which 
were to be expected from its accomplished author." 



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Department of Literature 

Herbert Jewett Baetox, A. M., Professor of Latin, Uni- 
versity of Illinois, Champaign, 111. : ' ' The volumes are the 
work of a scholar, are well written, and will prove of great 
value to a large circle of friends." 

T. W. Jobdan, A. M. 3 LL. D.. Dean and Professor of 
Latin, University of Tennessee. Knoxville. Tenn. : ''Wil- 
kinson's Foreign Classics is to be heartily commended to 
general readers and especially to students of the classics." 

Geoyer Ettixgee Baebee, A. M., Professor of Latin, 
University of Xebraska, Xeb. : "To the busy man or woman 
who wants to know something of Latin writers they furnish 
an economical avenue." 

Amos Xotes Currier, A. 1L, LL. D.. Professor of Latin. 
State University of Iowa. Iowa City. Iowa: '"The Latin 
Classics are admirable volumes and ought to be helpful and 
enjoyable to a large class of readers not versed in Latin, to 
say nothing of those classically trained who will appreciate 
the effectual presentation here made." 

William Davis Hooper, A. 1L, Professor Latin. Uni- 
versity of Georgia, Athens. Ga. : "I think the idea is an 
excellent one. and that it can be applied with great snceess 
to those who are studying Latin in the schools, as. of course, 
to those who have had no Latin. I cannot but believe that 
if some such work had been placed in my hands early in 
life, I should not have had. for so many years, such very 
vague and confused ideas about the Eomans. It was only 
late in my college course that it began to dawn on me that 
they were, as we say down here, 'real folks.' I think the 
books would form a verv valuable part of anv school library. 

"The work seems to be excellently done; the style is ex- 
tremely pleasing and sprightly, and I believe even a young 
reader will appreciate the compliment of being asked to 
decide between various translations of Virgil, for instance. 
Thev are reallv fascinating books." 



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The Examiner, New York: "Unsurpassed in English 
historical literature, as regards philosophical insight, 
grandeur, and sustained eloquence." 

Prof. E. P. Morris, Head Department of Latin in Will- 
iams College: "A genuine contribution to the spread of 
classical spirit." 

Henry T. Frieze, LL. D., late Professor of Latin, Uni- 
versity of Michigan : "It cannot fail to do good in opening 
a new world of thought and expression to those who have 
no access to it through the originals." 

W. F. Allen, formerly Professor of Latin, University 
of Wisconsin: "It is better adapted to give non-classical 
readers a notion of what classical literature is than any 
other work with which I am acquainted. ' ' 

Henry F. Burton, Professor of Latin, University of 
Rochester: "An exceedingly readable book. The familiar 
gossipy style, and the numberless little digressions and allu- 
sions and quotations which enliven the natural dryness of 
the subject, cannot fail to fix the attention of both youthful 
and adult readers." 

The Outlook, New York: "It is a pleasure to examine 
so careful and conscientious a piece of scholarly workman- 
ship as Prof. W. C. Wilkinson's Preparatory Latin Course 
in English. Perhaps nothing better can be said than that 
it is worthy to take its place with its companion volume, the 
Preparatory Greek Course in English." 



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Department of Literature 

The Nation : ■ ' The author has done all he could have 
done to give in a very short space a comprehensive view of 
French literature. He has one great merit — he is always 
interesting. ' ' 

Edward Egglestox : "I do not see how this work can 
be otherwise than very helpful to anybody desiring a gen- 
eral account of German literature in the English language. 

David Staer Jordan, LL. D., President Leland Stanford 
Junior University : " Professor vTilkinson's 'Foreign Clas- 
sics in English' should be of very great value to students 
and to busy people who wish to know the substance of the 
great literary masterpieces of other countries and have not 
the opportunity to read them in the original." 

Jaaies G. K. McClubb, D. D., President Lake Forest Uni- 
versity, Lake Forest, HI. : ' i They answer to a great need, 
and they answer to that need admirably. They place an 
immense amount of the world's best literature within reach 
of all ambitious minds. It was a happy thought that in- 
spired Dr. \Yilkinson to the effort which has found such 
successful expression in these six useful volumes." 

Ja^ies M. Tayloe, D. D.. LL. D.. President Vassar Col- 
lege. Pougkkeepsie, X. Y. : "It was to be expected that in 
the work of such a well-known critic and writer one would 
find interest, excellent dictum, and keen criticism. The work 
accomplishes fully the purpose set forth by the editor in 
his preface. It proves interesting to one who knows some- 
thing of the originals, and it cannot fail to accomplish its 
intended mission for those to whom it is an introduction to 
ancient and modern literature. The general reader will find 
his interest awakened by the treatment of the subject, and 
will be impelled. I think, to follow up the authors character- 
ised and quoted. I very cordially commend the work." 



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Richard Henry Jesse, LL. D., President University of 
Missouri, Columbia, Mo.: "The idea on which the series 
is founded seems to me an excellent one. Indeed, I have 
often wondered that the idea has not been embodied of tener 
to book form. It seems to me that Mr. Yfilkinson has done 
his work well. I take pleasure in commending the series of 
books." 

Sara J. Smith, Principal of Woodside Seminary, Hart- 
ford, Conn.: "I certainly shall try to have our girls wish 
to add them to their private libraries. They certainly would 
make a very appropriate present for a father to give a 
daughter, and many girls will be proud to own them. Not 
only in contents, but in type, paper and binding they fill a 
valuable place among books to be used with pleasure and 
profit." 

W. H. P. Faunce, A. M., D. D., President Brown Univer- 
sity, Providence, R. I. : "They have unlocked the great lit- 
erary heritage of our race for thousands who would other- 
wise have remained ignorant of what that heritage is. I 
am glad to know that they are having a wider circulation 
than ever." 

J. W. Bashford, D. D., President Ohio Wesleyan Univer- 
sity, Delaware, Ohio: "Prof. W. C. Wilkinson's 'Foreign 
Classics in English' give us all the information and much 
of the spirit of Greek and Roman and French and German 
literature. The English student may thus become familiar 
with the great masterpieces of poetry, history and eloquence 
produced by other people. Professor Wilkinson is so clear 
in his introductions and so genial in his comments that the 
books are full of interest and entertainment as well as of 
profit. ' ' 

J, E. Rankin, D. D., LL. D., President Howard Univer- 
sity, Washington, D. C. : "I regard Professor Wilkinson's 
edition of 'Foreign Classics' as accurate and scholarly, and 
the best substitute for foreign classics themselves with 
which I am acquainted." 



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Department of Literature 

The Interior, Chicago: "It will certainly have strong 
attractions for general literary students and readers of all 
classes." 

Western Christian Advocate: "This work cannot be 
too highly commended." 

The Xatiox : "Of all the devices for introducing non- 
classical readers to a knowledge of the ancient classics, this 
is the most effective." 

S. L. Caldwell, D. D., formerly President of Vassar 
College: "As the idea is capital, the execution is equally 
good. ' ' 

The Examixer, New York: "We trust that no one of 
our readers will do himself the injustice of failing to read 
the work." 

Westminster Review: "Popular works of this kind, so 
far from degrading classical literature, or making the igno- 
rant fancy that they have the key to all knowledge, are genu- 
ine cultivators of the public taste." 

The Ixdepexdext, New York: "He writes with a 
sprightly, as well as graceful, pen, and has brought together 
skillfully the essential elements of a popular manual." 

Reformed Quarterly Review: "Throughout bears 
abundant evidence to the scholarship and literary ability 
of its author." 

Thomas Went worth Higgixsox: "I have read the 
book with much pleasure. * * * There are many who 
will be grateful for just such a work." 

James B. Axgell, LL. D.. President of the University 
of Michigan: "I have found myself thoroughly interested 
from the beginning to the end of the work. ' ' 



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History teaches no uncertain lesson. 
The elements of greatness and success 
are in the man. There are no locks and 
keys on learning, there is no monopoly 
of ideas. There are no secret formulas 
handed down from generation to gen- 
eration or locked up in the language of 
an alien tongue. The ordinary man 
will content himself with an ordinary 
understanding. Genius will be satisfied 
with nothing short of absolute mas- 
tery." — James DeWitt Andrews, LL 
D, former Prof. Law, Northwestern 
University, Chairman Com. on Classi- 
fication, Am. Bar. Asst., Author 
"Cooley's Blackstone," Wilson's 
Works, "Andrews' American Law," 
etc. 



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